[crackmonkey] [dallas@pixar.com: This just in (fwd)]

[Nick Moffitt]

----- Forwarded message from Dallas Wisehaupt <dallas at pixar.com> -----

  Richmond, Ca, Friday December 4.

  In perhaps the most desperate stroke of their recent box
  office battle, SKG principal Jeffery Katzenberg called in a favor
  from God to try and literally wipe Pixar Animation Studios off the
  map.  Apparently pleased with the free marketing he's receiving
  from the forthcoming SKG animated release, "Price of Egypt," God
  obliged and unleashed a magnitude 4.1 earthquake on the unexpecting
  city of Richmond, Ca.

  Sources close to Katzenberg say that he was expecting more from 
  the Creator.  Local geologists estimated that at least a 6.0 
  would have been necessary to disrupt business at the 
  Richmond-based studio responsible for the record-breaking 
  new film, "A Bug's Life" ($46.5 million last weekend),
  the only percieved box office threat to SKG's "Prince."
  However, they also estimate that anything greater than 6.7 
  could have threatened operations at the home office of
  SKG partner Pacific Data Images in nearby Palo Alto, Ca.
  
  A local priest who follows God closely said, "God's pretty 
  savvy, especially when it comes to his own media representation.
  Good advertising is hard to come by, and 'Prince of Egypt' 
  may be the only taste of the Bible the kids today will 
  get.  God's been losing the world's attention to the likes 
  of Disney and Pixar in recent years, you know.  I think he 
  just wanted to remind everyone who's the boss."

----- End forwarded message -----

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